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Morphological observation by intravascular ultrasound in superior vena cava syndrome after pacemaker implantation
J Kitamura1, Y Murakami, T Shimada
1Fourth Department of Internal Medicine, Shimane Medical University, Japan.
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
We report a case of superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome that was assessed by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS). A highly echogenic eccentric lesion was demonstrated by IVUS. The use of IVUS also confirmed in vivo that SVC syndrome following pacemaker insertion occurs as a result of intimal thickening of the venous wall.